April 2018
U.S. Marines marching during their 1915-1934 military occupation of Haiti.
The tropical infection Yaws was highly prevalent in Haiti, but US occupation doctors did not pay significant attention to the disease until 1923 because of its close association with syphilis and stigmas attached to sexually transmitted disease.
The article An imperial laboratory: the investigation and treatment of treponematoses in occupied Haiti, 1915-1934, by Antony Dalziel McNeil Stewart (Newcastle University), examines anti-treponematoses work as part of US occupation public health policy in Haiti.
This paper was published in (dossier Public Health Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Oct-Dec 2017) and reflected Haiti’s status as a public health “laboratory”, which affected Haitian medicine for years to come and significantly influenced future campaigns aimed at disease eradication.
Read about Haiti in our blog:
Stewart, Antony Dalziel McNeil. An imperial laboratory: the investigation and treatment of treponematoses in occupied Haiti, 1915-1934. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Oct 2017, vol.24, no.4, p.1089-1106. ISSN 0104-5970
Lessons from Haiti – Carlos Linger introduces the dossier about the tripartite cooperation between Brazil, Cuba and Haiti.
Haitian immigrants in Brazilian healthcare system – It examines how SUS responded to the demands placed by this unexpected contingent of new users.
Cooperation between Brazil, Cuba and Haiti – The Next issue of HCS-Manguinhos will discuss different aspects of the cooperation between these countries.
Public Health Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: new dossier online – This issue features a dossier on public health policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
